Worship

“Christians don’t tell lies, they go to church and sing lies”

i was thinking about this today, on the songs we sing so loudly in church during worship, where suddenly everyone seems so holy, lifting their hands, jumping up and down, doing all kinds of things- but worship. When the music fades, the lights come back on, the band stops playing, do the lives we live reflect the things we sing?or do we just “worship” in that moment and the rest of the time we spend living like the world. Paul defines true worship as this in Romans 12:1-2:

” I appeal to you therefore brothers, by the mercies of G0d, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

what is the worship that God desires?that our bodies be presented as living sacrifices. Our bodies. Not 30 minutes of our singing, but our lives, our every breath be presented to God as a living sacrifice, for His glory. do you realize the kind of promises that we make to our God each time we sing a song?! a simple line sung so quickly like “i lay my life down at your feet” just come out of our mouth like that, but do we really mean it? to lay our lives down at the feet of Jesus, to surrender our crowns and just be broken down at the feet of our Lord. we sing lines like these so hastily and so often.

i guess the quote right at the start holds some truth doesn’t it?

Lets come back to the heart of worship

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